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[D-Maximal_Primal]

G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Ruination would have been a really cool repaint. I have the autobot FoC version, but the old RiD guy would be awesome too. at least he wouldn't have needed any remolding!

PS: I am the member who posted first on page 500!!

[Hellscream9999]

G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Wasn't it an exclusive (and a terrible figure)? Hardly what I'd call easy to get, and not something to compare a retail release to; and seeing as you just voted on a titan scorponok, even though we just got one as an exclusive, I'd say that's hypocrisy

But I have no doubt in my mind, that, between hasbro and TT we will see every recolor of this guy possible in the next few years

[Doctor McGrath]

G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Ruination would have been a really cool repaint. I have the autobot FoC version, but the old RiD guy would be awesome too. at least he wouldn't have needed any remolding!

PS: I am the member who posted first on page 500!!

Yeah, I would have been down for th RiD color scheme as well.

[Hellscream9999]

Wooo! Swindle rocks

[dragons]

G2 Bruticus looks fun but I wish the G2 colors weren't the go to recolor since we just got them in the FoC line. I would have rather seen Ruination.

Ruination would have been a really cool repaint. I have the autobot FoC version, but the old RiD guy would be awesome too. at least he wouldn't have needed any remolding!

PS: I am the member who posted first on page 500!!

Onslaught figure looks better than hotspot

[Cobotron]

500 pages of Combiner Wars ramblings y'all!! Woot Woot!

[Burn]

:KREMZEEK: 500 pages of Combiner Wars ramblings y'all!! Woot Woot!

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[Agamemnon]

I loved the review when he popped Swindle's head off. How many Transformers have wished to do exactly that?

[munkimus prime]

Onslaught looks really nice. The Torso Transformation is pretty cool how it does the opposite of Hotspot where the back pack goes over the head instead.

[Hellscream9999]

Onslaught looks really nice. The Torso Transformation is pretty cool how it does the opposite of Hotspot where the back pack goes over the head instead.

Both backpacks were so incredibly involved, they may have put more effort into those two parts alone than all of motormaster

[william-james88]

HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Until we see the instructions, we wont know what the proper way to transform it is. Maybe its this way. Looks better to me, I look forward to knowing if takara fixes it or if there is a fix or some way to make it more stable.

Oh for goodness sakes, before we even try to do a Liokaiser, can we at least get proper technobots? And why hasbro would release a japanese only show combiner I have no clue. If it looks good that'd be nice, but some of these choices just don't sound right, and all things considered, I'd hope they would not do him and instead wait.

If this is true, then it is further evidence that we wont be getting any good technobots. Both Liokaiser and Computron share a very similar looking drill vehicle limb. They could have done a new drill mold and recoloured it for each combiner. I wouldnt have minded that since both are pretty much a very similar alt mode. But now its just all Tanks? So then there is even less reason for there to be a decent nosecone mold out there. Its all disappointing on many levels.

[Shuttershock]

Scrap, man! Swindle got swole!

[Genericon #378]

I really hope they don't do this to Liokaiser. Where's Jallguar from Swindle? A new Leozack mold? And the Sky Lynx mold only has one repaint possibility that will look at least a little good: Big Purple Griffen. For shame, Hasbro.

I addressed the Jallguar thing above so I won't talk about that again but honestly the Griffin never made sense to me. First of all skylynx looks NOTHING like the griffin, they would have to do quite a bit of remolding for that to work. Also he's not really a character. If I remember right he's just a drone with no name and was in 1 maybe 2 episodes of the show and that's it. At least Deathsaurus' dragon mode, while not perfect, looks a bit like skylynx. There's no perfect solution to this by any means.

Sky Lynx looks nothing like Deathsaurus. And maybe the Griffin was a drone. So what? G1 Fort Max was basically a drone piloted by Cerebros, who himself was piloted by someone else. Inception!

[Hellscream9999]

HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Until we see the instructions, we wont know what the proper way to transform it is. Maybe its this way. Looks better to me, I look forward to knowing if takara fixes it or if there is a fix or some way to make it more stable.

If you watch optibotimus' second video, you'll see that the 'proper way' has paint on it, and the method in the photo will reveal copyright info - or something of the like - on the toy; don't get me wrong, I want this fixed more than you do, but I just don't really see that happening. I mean, how many variants of blitzwing did we get? 5 I think; None of them were fixed and that was as blatant an issue as brawls is.

[Hellscream9999]

I really hope they don't do this to Liokaiser. Where's Jallguar from Swindle? A new Leozack mold? And the Sky Lynx mold only has one repaint possibility that will look at least a little good: Big Purple Griffen. For shame, Hasbro.

I addressed the Jallguar thing above so I won't talk about that again but honestly the Griffin never made sense to me. First of all skylynx looks NOTHING like the griffin, they would have to do quite a bit of remolding for that to work. Also he's not really a character. If I remember right he's just a drone with no name and was in 1 maybe 2 episodes of the show and that's it. At least Deathsaurus' dragon mode, while not perfect, looks a bit like skylynx. There's no perfect solution to this by any means.

Sky Lynx looks nothing like Deathsaurus. And maybe the Griffin was a drone. So what? G1 Fort Max was basically a drone piloted by Cerebros, who himself was piloted by someone else. Inception!

Still, both would make for a killer torso and I cannot wait to hear if I can snag it seperately

[chuckdawg1999]

HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

Maybe that's the mistake. They put the trademark info on the wrong side.

[Shuttershock]

I really hope they don't do this to Liokaiser. Where's Jallguar from Swindle? A new Leozack mold? And the Sky Lynx mold only has one repaint possibility that will look at least a little good: Big Purple Griffen. For shame, Hasbro.

I addressed the Jallguar thing above so I won't talk about that again but honestly the Griffin never made sense to me. First of all skylynx looks NOTHING like the griffin, they would have to do quite a bit of remolding for that to work. Also he's not really a character. If I remember right he's just a drone with no name and was in 1 maybe 2 episodes of the show and that's it. At least Deathsaurus' dragon mode, while not perfect, looks a bit like skylynx. There's no perfect solution to this by any means.

Sky Lynx looks nothing like Deathsaurus. And maybe the Griffin was a drone. So what? G1 Fort Max was basically a drone piloted by Cerebros, who himself was piloted by someone else. Inception!

Still, both would make for a killer torso and I cannot wait to hear if I can snag it seperately

I kind of want the Griffin, if only so the combiner can be called "Purple Reign".

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I loved the review when he popped Swindle's head off. How many Transformers have wished to do exactly that?

All too many have dreamed of doing that

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Onslaught looks really nice. The Torso Transformation is pretty cool how it does the opposite of Hotspot where the back pack goes over the head instead.

Both backpacks were so incredibly involved, they may have put more effort into those two parts alone than all of motormaster

The backpacks alone are worthy of praise. Both molds handled that amazingly

[D-Maximal_Primal]

HA! Even hasbro is using the pelvis mis-transformation to cover up the fact that they f@$ked up Brawl

Perhaps that's been the right way to transform it all along? Better that it doesn't lock in than have that floppy mess?

Well no, the cw version has painted details showing you which is the proper side, besides, the front that's showing in the pic there, is where has/tak are putting the trademark info...

Maybe that's the mistake. They put the trademark info on the wrong side.

But they also put the painted detail on the other side though, indicating that should be the correct way. instead with this way the paint detail is tucked up under the body

[william-james88]

If you watch optibotimus' second video, you'll see that the 'proper way' has paint on it, and the method in the photo will reveal copyright info - or something of the like - on the toy; don't get me wrong, I want this fixed more than you do, but I just don't really see that happening. I mean, how many variants of blitzwing did we get? 5 I think; None of them were fixed and that was as blatant an issue as brawls is.

I did and all I saw was a guy repeating what he said the first time. This past week I have written not one but 2 articles which were about correcting an oversight from multiple reviewers. Hotspot's knees and Magnus' gun holding also had people claiming there was a flaw present when it wasnt as bad as they thought. I am not saying Optibotimus was wrong, but I wont fault anything until I have it in my hands and can see it for myself along with the instructions. I have been amazed at what the tf community as a collective could find in terms of fixes. And while Takara rarely makes this big a change to a mold, if it is indeed this bad, the jury is not yet out of how they will handle Brawl.

[no-one]

500 pages of Combiner Wars ramblings y'all!! Woot Woot!

I was wondering if someone was going to point this out. It seems just like yesterday when this thread hit 300 pages. I think the toy haul thread just hit 500 pages as well.

Back on topic, dat Swindle shall be mine. I'll probably nab Brawl even with the back problems. Still not sure about the rest of the Combaticast though. Back off topic: I think the RID minicon invasion my have my pocket book held for ransom at this point.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

500 pages of Combiner Wars ramblings y'all!! Woot Woot!

I was wondering if someone was going to point this out. It seems just like yesterday when this thread hit 300 pages. I think the toy haul thread just hit 500 pages as well.

Back on topic, dat Swindle shall be mine. I'll probably nab Brawl even with the back problems. Still not sure about the rest of the Combaticast though. Back off topic: I think the RID minicon invasion my have my pocket book held for ransom at this point.

Don't let them minis hold your wallet down! you know you want some of this! Especially Swindle. and Onslaught

[Hellscream9999]

I really hope they don't do this to Liokaiser. Where's Jallguar from Swindle? A new Leozack mold? And the Sky Lynx mold only has one repaint possibility that will look at least a little good: Big Purple Griffen. For shame, Hasbro.

I addressed the Jallguar thing above so I won't talk about that again but honestly the Griffin never made sense to me. First of all skylynx looks NOTHING like the griffin, they would have to do quite a bit of remolding for that to work. Also he's not really a character. If I remember right he's just a drone with no name and was in 1 maybe 2 episodes of the show and that's it. At least Deathsaurus' dragon mode, while not perfect, looks a bit like skylynx. There's no perfect solution to this by any means.

Sky Lynx looks nothing like Deathsaurus. And maybe the Griffin was a drone. So what? G1 Fort Max was basically a drone piloted by Cerebros, who himself was piloted by someone else. Inception!

Still, both would make for a killer torso and I cannot wait to hear if I can snag it seperately

I kind of want the Griffin, if only so the combiner can be called "Purple Reign".

Yes

[no-one]

! Especially Swindle. and Onslaught

I'm on the fence about Onslaught. He was the only G1 Combaticon I had though. Something about him isn't doing it for me, but Bruticus looks totally boss. #thestruggle